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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The Schumer-Manchin tax bill known as the Inflation Reduction Act , which passed the Senate on Sunday, raises taxes and will give the IRS billions to go into what the Wall Street Journal called “beast mode .” In all, the meant-to-be-inflation buster bill will dole out about $80 billion to the IRS for increase enforcement, operational improvements, customer service, and systems modernization. Think big, really big. That $80 billion is more than six times the current annual IRS budget of $12.6 billion. How can the IRS spend all of that? You guessed it, the bill says a whopping $45.6 billion will be for enforcement, and make no mistake, enforcement is the main directive from Democrats to the IRS. Get bigger, tougher and faster at collecting, and make them pay. Meanwhile, the IRS could be ramping up its police power too. The IRS is a key part of the government, but not one you usually associate with law enforcement … [Read more...] about The Inflation Reduction Act Unleashes A Tougher IRS

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration office. —POEA FACEBOOK PAGE An alleged illegal recruiter operating in Davao City was recently apprehended inside the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) office after running into some of her victims. At least 109 prospective overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) traveled from Davao City to file a case at the POEA building in Mandaluyong City on August 3. The victims saw one of their recruiters, identified as Vegloure Ragotero, in the building and reported her. According to Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople, Ragotero is not connected with any licensed recruitment agency nor authorized to engage in the recruitment of workers abroad. Ople said she has ordered an investigation of Ragotero’s presence in the POEA office. As an offshoot of Ragotero’s arrest, another group of 126 victims from Davao City managed to corner her five cohorts outside a hotel in Pasay City on August 4. The other alleged illegal … [Read more...] about Illegal recruiters busted by victims at POEA

An officer from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stands guard inside Trump Tower, after former U.S. President Donald Trump said that FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., August 12, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida this week removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as “top secret”, the U.S. Justice Department said Friday while also disclosing it has probable cause to believe he violated the Espionage Act. The bombshell disclosures were made in legal documents released four days after FBI agents carried out the search of Trump’s residence based on a warrant approved by a federal magistrate judge. The Justice Department told U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart in its warrant application that it had probable cause to believe that Trump violated the Espionage Act, a federal law that prohibits the possession … [Read more...] about FBI removed ‘top secret’ documents from Trump’s home, US gov’t says